 Interaction and imitation with heterogeneous agents: A misleading evolutionary equilibriumFrancisco Cabo and Ana García-González Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2020, vol. 179, issue C, 152-174 Abstract: In a two-population evolutionary game we analyze the interaction between individuals belonging to two populations with the same strategy set but different payoffs. A game is played among individuals in the two populations. They imitate agents belonging to the same and also the alternative population. When a revising agent is matched with someone in the alternative population who plays differently, his expected payoff and the observed payoff of his partner diverge. Hence, he conjectures the payoff from switching to the other strategy by weighing what he expected and what he observes. The evolutionary dynamics has a unique locally asymptotically stable fixed point, which typically differs from the evolutionary stable equilibrium without inter-population imitation. For a collective action game we analyze to what extent the compliance rate and the social welfare differ from the Nash equilibrium, and how these gaps depend on the confidence that agents assign to what they see. Keywords: Two-population evolutionary game; Inter-population imitation; Evolutionary stable equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jeborg:v:179:y:2020:i:c:p:152-174 DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2020.09.002 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization is currently edited by Houser, D. and Puzzello, D. More articles in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization from Elsevier |
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